And here I was thinking I was having a bad experience with a Dr. Bronner's bottle.

Gosh, when you say it like that it's almost as if it really is too hard to offer a donate button, a log in and some content for your trouble. It's basically lunacy. "You can, but you can't because, well, because." Sure. Makes perfect sense.

I mean if people really, really give zero fucks why should anyone else give zero fucks?
Do we not reap what we sow?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry but what the fuck did you just say? You went sailing with your bitch and she rode a coke bottle then traded dresses with Tinkerbell?

Being that A1 has a pretty damn good 'interest financing' engine - they put their money where their interests stand a good chance of being served thus adversely affecting the race where A2 believes they can have their own affect. Congress seems to have a funny and twisted way of bringing about a foregone conclusion. Anything you get is "forward" looking and never undoing damage from the past. Fuck they don't even talk about it. Too many funds to raise.

My point was - no matter how you got there if you have the gall to be led by fright (and who knows what else, party mobs perhaps) to vote on a proposed law that is counter to the Constitution then they should be held to account when said law is abused to the detriment of the entire population. Everybody seems to think you can just vote that away when, clearly, that is an enormous undertaking. Gargantuan. Monumentous even. Much more difficult an issue than simply who elects Congress.

And yes, agreed, we are our own enemy albeit Congress is supposed to represent us, all of us, and not simply serve the desires and whims of any given administrations bureaucracy, threat assessments included. Where's the hindsight? Where is the country's conscience? And where, for Christ's sake, is accountability? If accountability is tossed aside and there is no fear from being held responsible it is far too easy a cop out to simply ask who elects Congress. Fuck the voters, the representatives, the president of the day and the judges - who approved the law that has resulted in a frontal on our country? Not you and certainly not me. Sovereign Immunity - who allows that and on what occasion does that come into effect? Why, conveniently enough, it seems to be when shit gets serious enough as to question the integrity of our government it would appear. Convenient.

So, again, I understand and respect your answer yet that seems to leave us with .. nothing. "You voted the asshats in" does not seem to have much bearing on what said asshat does while they're there and I'm of the mind that asshats responsible for setting this stage should be held to account. Removing them from office is a nice gesture and all that but at junctions like these what's the message?

I hesitate to type this but after reading TFA I could only conclude that Congress is, in fact, the enemy. Those responsible for passing the applicable laws should, in my mind, be tried for treason. That or show us all (that is - all of us) the truth about all these plots and evil little plans that threatened to take off half the eastern seaboard. SHOW ME! Cunts.

That we're allowed to (nay, made to) fear and to react to that which we can not see is no longer acceptable. Not. Acceptable.
I. Do. Not. Accept.

Your statements contradict the spirit of your sig.

Yet another display of the selective application of intelligence.

You must be a voter.

I might adjust this accordingly;

The Olympics--where everyone gets paid except the athletes who actually do the work and the volunteers who actually make it work.

and throw in since I'm typing; What the fuck is happening? Sponsors sponsor - what this is is corruption of the games that represent the world - our world - not just their fucking manipulative twisted strong-arming of OUR product.

Fuck the IOC and their supposed "sponsorships"

And may each and every athlete from each and every country perform to the best of their abilities. Impress yourselves and impress the world.

Pirate The Olympics! For The World!

luther349, I did try and refrain and I do recognize that there is a new cult spin and war on iOS fiends, freaks, friends and fools however your "broad brushed" scoping is, well, ignorant at worst and forward-looking at best. I was handed an OSX platform for the purposes if integration quite some time ago. I find and feel it's the best "user-end" tool going for my working role in life.. UNIX. Windows is.. Windows, Linux is still clunky by trying to keep it seamless and still somewhat difficult to force into position (re custom interfacing) and, I'm finding Android seems to suffer from this everywhere and nowhere thing as well. The apple wars are foolish - they're going to sink their own float. When my current platform is best left to web page viewing and stereo hook-up it may very well be the end. I don't like the direction and I don't like the company lately.

Cheaper, better, faster hardware is great. Expensive, fast, robust end user interface capabilities and underlying flexibility can be worth it too. It's a good combo to date but it does seems to be heading for a wall. Having thus defended some peoples Apples I'll throw the relatively on-topic bit in - TV is ass but I still have the lowest tier as I still have a lot of people in the house and I, personally, refuse to watch ass programing with commercials save maybe one or two shows I'll watch with family per season, maybe - rarely alone unless it's Nova or the like. The rest can do what they like. As for trunking our viewing pleasure - the current environment is a little like Linux on the desktop - lots to choose from, a few tricks, some know-how, a few pitfalls and the same media corporate greed engines trying to wrest control from the rest of the world.

Good, fair and modern services on ALL platforms are completely possible now, technically - it's just that they are not baked right now for reality unless perhaps you're a one or two person household, then it's easy as pie. If I had more time I would be finding the best match for my house and ripping out TV in a heartbeat. As a full time tinkerer I don't have time to tinker for tinkers sake. I can wait a little bit longer but my patience is wearing thin. "Pirates" (Internet library users) have the right idea and they're blazing the trail to enlightenment it's just that those needing said enlightenment are one notch below religious zealots.

Thank you. Now I'm taking my mod points back. That'll do.

Fantastic correction.

mod parent up

I'm afraid that your point, as it pertains to this thread, eludes me. It's pretty damn easy to grow. So if you're good with giving your money away to yet another fucked up company for some marked up schwag then by all means have at it. Most people... will have a choice. One much more flexible than butts and booze by far.